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HANDEL MESSIAH
from Paris Opera Awards, First Prize from
Anneliese Rothenberger Competition and
Star of the Year for La Sonnambula from
Munich’s Abendzeitung. She can be heard
on Elina Garanča’s Deutsche Grammophon
recording Revive and the DVD of Rienzi at
Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse.
built a reputation as a leading exponent
of English song. In 2007, she devised
Kathleen Ferrier — Her Life, Letters &
Music to honor the legendary English
singer, a program that has been endorsed
by the Kathleen Ferrier Society.
Diana Moore last appeared with the BSO in
Jennifer O’Loughlin last appeared with the December 2017, performing Mozart’s Re-
BSO in December 2016, performing Handel’s quiem, Marin Alsop, conductor.
Diana Moore
English mezzo-soprano
Diana Moore is lauded on
both sides of the Atlantic
for her “emotional depth”
(The Guardian),
“thrilling” technical bravura (Gramophone)
and “rich, evocative sound” (San Francisco
Chronicle). She enjoys a varied and
international career of opera, oratorio and
concert performances, and is a popular
soloist at many major music festivals.
Moore’s tall and graceful stature has
made her the ideal trouser-role performer.
With conductor Nicholas McGegan and
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Moore
performed the role of Medoro in Handel’s
Orlando in an acclaimed American tour at
the Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center’s Alice
Tully Hall and the Tanglewood Festival.
Recent concert engagements of note include
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony along with
selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben
Wunderhorn with Royal Northern Sinfonia
and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at Royal
Albert Hall and Winchester, Ely, Gloucester
and York Minster Cathedrals.
As a recording artist, Moore is a soloist
on the premiere recording of Scarlatti’s
La Gloria di Primavera released in 2016
with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra,
which was selected as an “Editor’s Choice”
recording in Gramophone. Her recording
of Handel’s Parnasso in Festa with King’s
Consort and conductor Matthew Halls
was the winner of the Stanley Sadie Handel
Recording Prize.
Moore’s charismatic vocal quality and
training place her firmly within the fine
heritage of English mezzo-sopranos. She
is committed to celebrating the music
and musicians of her homeland and has
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Messiah, Edward Polochick, conductor.
Benjamin
Butterfield
Praised by The New York
Times as, “clarion-voiced
and vibrant,” Benjamin
Butterfield is known
for his performances throughout North
America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
He has performed with many of the world’s
leading conductors including Sir Andrew
Davis, James Conlon, Nicholas McGegan,
Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Bramwell
Tovey, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Labadie,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Jeffrey Thomas,
Trevor Pinnock, Bruno Weil and Marc
Minkowski.
In the 2018–19 season Butterfield
makes returns to the Baltimore Symphony
(Messiah), Calgary Philharmonic
(Mendelssohn’s Elijah), and Vancouver
Symphony (Dvorak’s Stabat Mater).
He makes his debut with the Nashville
Symphony singing Messiah under
Giancarlo Guerrero. During the season,
Butterfield also performs with University
of King’s College Chapel Choir, returns
to the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and
performs in his hometown with Victoria
Symphony, Victoria Choral Society, Victoria
Philharmonic Choir.
Recent performances include Carnegie
Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Lincoln
Center with American Classical Orchestra,
Utah Symphony, Kansas City Symphony,
San Diego Symphony and Orchestre
Symphonique de Québec, L’Orchestre
Lyrique de Montreal and Victoria
Symphony. Butterfield has also appeared at
Pacific Baroque Festival under conductor
Marc Destrubé, Luminous Voices, Elgin
Symphony and the Yellow Barn Chamber
Music Festival in Vermont. He makes
frequent appearances with the Bach Choir
of Bethlehem including their annual
2-week Bach Festival.
Most recently as an interpreter of opera,
he portrayed the role of Mime in Das
Rheingold with Pacific Opera and was stage
director for Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at
the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. Other
operatic roles include Grimoaldo in
Handel’s Rodelinda and Jupiter in Semele
with Pacific Opera Victoria, Frère Massée
in Messiaen’s St. François d’Assise with Kent
Nagano and the Montreal Symphony,
Tamino in The Magic Flute with the
Toronto Symphony and Don Ottavio in
Don Giovanni with Calgary Opera.
A prolific recording artist, he has
recorded for Analekta, Dorian, CBC
Records, Koch International and Timpani.
He has also been featured in Messiah on
ZDF at the Handel-Festspiele Halle with
Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert
and on CBC Radio as a guest host for
This is my Music. Recently Butterfield
recorded the St. John Passion with the Bach
Choir of Bethlehem (Analekta), the Rhien
transcription of Mahler’s Das Lied von der
Erde for Yellow Barn and a sixth CD of
Ukrainian Art Song for the Ukrainian Art
Song Project in Toronto.
In fall of 2018, Butterfield was named
a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,
the country’s highest academic honor.
Associate Professor, head of voice and
co-head of performance for the School
of Music at the University of Victoria,
he was the 2015 recipient of the UVic.
Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in
Artistic Expression. He has also served as
guest faculty for Opera Nuova, the Amalfi
Coast Music Festival in Italy, The Victoria
Conservatory Summer Vocal Academy,
Vancouver International Song Institute,
Yellow Barn and Opera on the Avalon.
Benjamin Butterfield last appeared with the
BSO in November 2017, performing Mozart's
Requiem, Marin Alsop, conductor.
Sidney Outlaw
Lauded by The New
York Times as a “terrific
singer” with a “deep,
rich timbre” and the San
Francisco Chronicle as an